Naslov
Gillian Brock: Global justice - a cosmopolitan account

Autori
Brčić, Marita

Izvornik
Synthesis philosophica (0352-7875) 50 (2010), 2; 385-387

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, prikaz, ostalo

Ključne riječi
Justice ; cosmopolitan ; globalization

Sažetak
She has been developing a model of global justice that takes seriously the equal moral worth of persons but leaves scope for a defensible form of nationalism. Her concept of global justice advocates that all people are adequately positioned to enjoy the prospects for a decent life, such that they are enabled to meet their basic needs, their basic liberties are protected and there are fair terms of cooperation in collective endeavors. She thinks that global governance can co-exist with nation states. Global poverty can be mitigate with international taxation and accounting regime, which would also enable developing countries better to help themselves. In conclusion, she states that skepticism about feasibility of global justice is warranted because there is lack what global justice is or what the goals of global justice should be. Goals, transition, measurement and motivation are the problems that rise skepticism about the feasibility of global justice. Problem is also with lack of knowledge about what works and what does not work in trying to help the worst off or whether we have made some progress in mitigate the poverty. There is lack of institutions or agents that have power or moral authority to act to enforce, secure or promote global justice and so on. The biggest problem is how we would sanction non-compliance in the case of those who do not play their required part, especially if the non-compliance is powerful state. However, G. Brock is an optimistic thinker. People have to recognize themselves as the world citizens. In that recognition we can find the biggest influence in creating the necessary motivation for building a better world. G. Brock believes that we all have to work together on the project called ‘global justice’.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filozofija

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